.travel food.

Do you have a go-to for travel food? I tend to take long trips (long in mileage, slow in mileage or I rely on southwest airlines...enough said.) which can mean all day spent in the airport with no real food options. My Naturopath Doctor gave me a recipe for soaked nut bars last year for a good power snack. I love them! They are full of flavor and lots of good stuff like omega-3s, proteins, and healthy fats! Click on the link below for a version of the recipe,

almost makes me excited to sit in an airplane all day...almost.

Soaked Nut Bars

Another great thing about this recipe is that you can totally switch things around like using different nuts (I used walnuts this time instead of Cashews), different seasoning (I LOVE cinnamon so I don't really change that but I did add dark chocolate chips! Highly recommend this!!), and dried fruit (I use dates because I love them but you can use dried cherries, cranberries, raisins, etc). I also added chia seeds as well. Maybe some toasted quinoa next time...so many options, seriously!

Once you try these you'll never buy a protein bar again!!

.a walk.

Oh weekends, you are a wonderful time to REJUVENATE! Especially with the sun shinning bright - spring is HERE! I've realized that since returning from Malawi - I NEED time outside - I CRAVE time outside. But with a desk job and a 30 minute lunch the weekends are GO time. This weekend I discovered a new trail.

Isn't is magical to find something new (especially in an old "known" place)?

I spent part of my Saturday there and then return on Sunday just to have a little more time exploring more. Then I received my copy the Rose Bakery (a bakery in Paris) cookbook in the mail!! A beautiful hardback book filled with rustic fonts and endearing, unpretentious photos. I have a desire to make every single recipe SO GOOD! So I started with the Honey Granola (see picture above!) Is anyone familiar with the Rose Bakery?

.thrilled.

photo source: lifewithacinnamongirl.blogspot.com

Julie over at Life with a Cinnamon Girl is birthing a quarterly cook-zine, Seasoned.

"...I have spent the past month in the kitchen working up all kinds of delicious meals and if the kale, leek and white bean pizza that we just tested out has anything to say...it's that you should really pick up a copy come early January! The cookazine will be available in digital and hardcopy. Not only are there going to be twenty-something recipes from our kitchen there will also be articles about winter life from some of my favorite people on the internet and off."
(Seasoned Quarterly).


It is a seasonal zine that will be filled with yummy eats and delicious conscious thoughts about mind, body, and food. She asked her readers to submit wintery pictures and I'm thrilled to say she picked two of mine!! Be sure to check out the zine on January 7th.